TATA SKY #ProductEngineering #DevOps #AWS #Mobility Summary TO THE NEW along with other chosen partners by Tata Sky has been involved in rebuilding OTT platform along with back-end ecosystem for supporting Android, iOS mobile apps and tablets. TO THE NEW helped them to improve their existing infrastructure to support 1 Million+ concurrent users with zero capex and 24/7 managed services support to ensure 99.99% availability of the application. The Client Highlights Tata Sky Limited (‘Tata Sky’) is a joint venture between Tata Sons and 24/7 monitoring of 21st Century Fox. Incorporated in 2001 and launched services in 2006, infrastructure Tata Sky is India’s leading content distribution platform providing Pay TV and OTT services. Tata Sky currently has over 600 channels and over 17 million connections in India. Architecture solution to handle 1,00,000 concurrent The Goal users with 99.99% availability Tata Sky had an OTT app that helped consumers to stream live TV channels and watch videos on demand via mobile and web platforms. Achieved zero downtime They faced multiple challenges such as frequent outages, slow deployments across backend and not so intuitive frontend. Their AWS account had 100+ multiple services; even servers with a monthly spend of approx. $25000. They needed an during high traffic. architecture solution that was linearly scalable to handle 1,00,000 concurrent users and a system with 99.99% availability. Tata Sky wanted a reliable partner to ensure 24/7 infrastructure monitoring of applications. Connect with us Key Features Ensured OTP based multi-factor authentication, profile setup & management Enabled operational and administrative tasks management in the backend system Enhanced live video streaming capability. The VOD section covered TV Shows, Web shorts and Movies Ensured platform specific content restriction basis the platform from which users are accessing the service such as mobile, web and dongle Captured content analytics to visualize consumption and analyse user behaviour Multi-layered, stateless microservices were set to run in docker containers and orchestrated by Kubernetes. This allowed us to achieve enough linear scalability on the commodity hardware to cater to varying degrees of load, supporting upto 10,000 users during the initial launch Automated deployment and release management using Kubernetes supported daily builds and deployment. Enabled multiple deployments in a day as and when needed with zero downtime Technical Excellence Created highly responsive mobile app for Android using Android SDK, Java, XML and JSON Created iOS app using Swift programming, Cocoa touch framework, JSON, XML, Mixpanel, Moengage, Crashlytics and Alamofire Used Springboot for building web applications and APIs with Groovy, Spock and Java acting as the programming languages used for writing unit test cases Used OpenTok for audio and video calling and Socket.io to capture events in real-time Used MongoDB for tracking datastore Used ElasticSearch to provide essential search and discovery related functionality OAuth2 based multi-factor security mechanism was used for authentication and authorization Access control to APIs was verified at the API gateway level and core-business services were secured in a private network Services and datastores were set to run in distributed and replicated multi-node configurations for improved fault tolerance in case of outages Kong was used as API Gateway Chef was used for managing configurations for all application servers as well as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ & Hazelcast servers. Centralized logging & monitoring dashboard for a single point of monitoring Use of AWS Services Used Amazon EC2 to increase compute capacity in cloud Used AWS Direct Connect setup with 3rd party service providers Used Amazon VPC peering setup for integration with 3rd party service providers Used Amazon RDS to setup, operate and scale a relational database Used Amazon S3 & Amazon Glacier for online file storage and data archiving Used Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to coordinate and manage the delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients Connect with us Leveraged Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to increase the effectiveness of email marketing in cloud Used Amazon Route 53, a scalable domain name system (DNS) service to direct end users to applications Used Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) to store persistent data Used AWS Identity & Access Managment (IAM) for securely controlling access to AWS services Used AWS Trusted Advisor, an online resource to reduce cost and optimize AWS infrastructure Used AWS Lambda to run code without provisioning or managing servers Technology Stack Frontend Backend Database Mobility COCOA AWS Launch AWS Configuration Others Know more about our DevOps AWS offerings www.tothenew.com Talk to Our Experts Connect with us.